Ebook: War Is a Racket : the Antiwar Classic by America’s Most Decorated Soldier
- Tags: War -- Economic aspects. War Cost of. War -- Moral and ethical aspects. War. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General. HISTORY -- Military -- Strategy.
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
- City: New York
- Language: English
- epub
War Is a Racket is the title of two works, a speech and a booklet, by retired US Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient Smedley Darlington Butler. In these works, Butler frankly discusses from his experience as a career military officer how business interests commercially benefit from warfare. After his retirement from the Marine Corps, Gen. Butler made a nationwide tour in the early 1930s Read more...
Abstract: War Is a Racket is the title of two works, a speech and a booklet, by retired US Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient Smedley Darlington Butler. In these works, Butler frankly discusses from his experience as a career military officer how business interests commercially benefit from warfare. After his retirement from the Marine Corps, Gen. Butler made a nationwide tour in the early 1930s giving his speech, "War Is a Racket." The speech was so well received that he wrote a longer version that was published in 1935, now republished with a foreword by